Chase Sui Wonders has joined the cast of the upcoming Apple-produced seriesCity on Fire,according to Variety.City on Fireis based on the book of the same name by Garth Risk Hallberg. The book was aNew York TimesNotable Book and named one of the Best Books of the Year byThe Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Vogue, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Wall Street Journal.
As the official synopsis reads,City on Firefollows the story of an NYU student Samantha Cicciaro, played by Wonders, who gets shot in Central Park on New Year’s Eve. She is alone; there are no witnesses and very little physical evidence. Her friends’ band is playing her favorite downtown club, but she leaves to meet someone, promising to return. She never does. As the crime against Samantha is investigated, she’s revealed to be the crucial connection between a series of mysterious citywide fires, the downtown music scene, and a wealthy uptown real estate family fraying under the strain of the many secrets they keep.
Wonders is best known for playing Riley, a popular student and budding photographer who explores her queerness, in the HBO Max seriesGeneration+. She also appeared in the filmOn the RocksalongsideRashida JonesandBill Murrayand in the HBO teen comedy seriesBetty.Her upcoming roles besidesCity on Fireinclude the filmBodies Bodies Bodies, alongside Lee Pace, Pete Davidson, andAmandla Stenberg. Wonders has also co-written and co-directed the filmA Trivial Exclusion.
Recently, Wyatt Oleff (I Am Not Okay With This, It) was cast as the male lead of the series. Oleff will play Charlie, a friend of Samantha’s who is struggling to cope with the death of his father on 9/11 two years earlier. After she is shot, he stops at nothing to unravel the mystery of what happened.
City on Firemarks the first series order from Schwartz and Savage’s first look deal with Apple
City on Fireis written and executive produced byJosh Schwartzand Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl, Looking for Alaska, The OC), with the duo also serving as co-showrunners. The series comes as Schwartz and Savage sign a first-look deal at Apple. They executive produce under their Fake Empire banner. Jesse Peretz will executive produce as well as direct the first two episodes of the first season while Fake Empire’s Lis Rowinski will co-executive produce. The first season of the series will have eight episodes.
There has been no release date announced for the series, but the eight-episode first season will premiere globally onApple TV+.
